Every trader and his dog were looking for bullish numbers on the May 1 Cattle on Feed report released this afternoon. Fortunately, neither man nor beast was disappointed.

In fact, all three categories printed on the friendly side of private guesses: on feed, 99%; placed in April 85%; marketed in April, 100%. The positive implications of these totals should be enough to cause cattle futures to open ...

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